The Wild Honey Collective is a mid-Michigan roots music group that performs original and traditional music, encompassing old-time string band influences, cosmic country, and modern Americana. Since forming in 2020, The Wild Honey Collective has issued 3 studio albums, a live album, and undertaken multiple national tours.
Singers and songwriters Tommy McCord, Danielle Gyger, Timmy Rodriguez, and Dan O’Brien initiated Wild Honey as a back porch acoustic gathering during the COVID-19 pandemic, performing, writing, and arranging music purely for their own enjoyment. Within weeks of the first informal rehearsals, the principal quartet began recording the Volume 1 full-length album, calling upon a dynamic pool of musician friends to flesh out the rootsy collection. The debut LP was critically acclaimed upon its January 2021 release and the group has remained prolific both in the studio and on stage, joined by pedal steel guitarist Adam Aymor, drummer Joel Kuiper and an ever-expanding cast of regular collaborators in the greater Collective. As of 2026 the group has issued The Wild Honey Collective, Volume 1 (January 2021), the 12-track Volume 2 (July 2022), the 7 track “mini-album” Chicory (September 2023), the 12-track Volume 3 (May 2024) – the 2024 “Roots Album of The Year” per the WYCE Jammies – the 6 song EP Solidago (September 2025), and the 20 song “double” Live album (January 2026), each building on the foundation of original and traditional music set by the debut album.